The Board granted eligibility for the direct payment of attorney fees to the appellant from past due benefits awarded in a September 2022 rating decision granting entitlement to TDIU.
The deciding factor: The September 2022 rating decision was not an initial decision with respect to the case, but a subsequent grant of increased rating based on an increased amount of disability found to have existed between the initial effective date of the award following the grant of service connection and the date of the rating action implementing the appellate decision granting the increase.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 5, 2025
- Citation
- A25010792
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